Defying KCR's dictum, T-JAC to go ahead with agitation

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrashekar Rao's dictum to hold back its protest plans on Telangana notwithstanding, the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) has decided to go ahead to launch the agitation. And the T-JAC chairman M Kodandaram on Sunday said the pro-Telangana outfit would take out padayatra in the assembly segments represented by the ministers of the region for starter before intensifying the agitation next month.

"To start with we would take out padayatra in the ministers' assembly constituencies, and then intensify the agitation and wont rest till the Centre making an announcement on Telangana," said Kodandaram, while addressing a public gathering in Zahirabad, Medak district.

Kodandrama's a rather bold statement came in the face of KCR asking him hold on till he meets the former to sort out certain issues pending between the two, especially the differences cropped up post Mahbubnagar bypoll in which the BJP handed a shocking defeat to TRS. While the T-JAC had decided to call for its steering committee meeting on Saturday, KCR's son and TRS MLA K Taraka Rama Rao called Kodandaram asked him to put off the meeting till his father calls on him.

Responding to a query, a T-JAC leader said there was no longer a situation that the T-JAC toeing the lines of KCR and the outfit had decided to go ahead with its own plan. However, he said Kodandaram is likely to meet KCR shortly, possibly after Diwali festival.